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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaIndonesiaBurkina Faso
70208,10511,075
71211,40811,405
71214,47511,828
72217,51612,380
72220,54912,829
72224,47313,178
72227,53413,540
72230,73913,917
72233,91814,309
73237,05614,722
73240,14015,152
73243,17115,600
73246,15016,064
73249,08616,563
73251,94717,072
73254,70217,575
74257,35118,094
74259,90618,621
74262,37919,157
74264,78919,698
75267,14220,242
75269,43720,788
76271,67421,336
76273,40921,889

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Indonesia

  • 1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
  • 1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

No separate list is published for Dominica, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.